Payroll Self Service

Welcome

This application gives you online access to your payslips and P60s, and also lets you change your personal details so that your personnel department has the most up to date information about you.

Depending on the permissions that you have been given by administrator, you can see and change your personal details, photo, personal contacts, education records, bank account information, absence details, and holiday entitlement. If you manage a team you can also see their details if you have been given the necessary access permissions to do so.

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Payroll Self Service (1.12)

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Main page
Payroll Self Service page
Your details page
Your details
Your payslips page
Your payslips
Your payslips

Users

Administration page
Pegasus Web Xchange administration page

Web Xchange Admininstrators

Administration page
Payroll Self Service administration page

Payroll Self Service Admininstrators

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Find for User name or password

User Name

When your administrator set up Payroll Self Service they will send you an email invitation to join the service.Your user name will be included in that email. The user name is usually one word using your first name followed by your surname.

  • Try your full name as one word or check your email's inbox.
  • If you don't have access to the email that you received from your administrator or you think that your user name has been set up differently, contact your administrator for confirmation.

Password

If you forget your password you can request that it is reset. Your reset password will be emailed to you.

  • Select the Forgot Password link, enter your user name and select Reset.
  • Check your email inbox for the email with the reset password.

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To view and print payslips

After your payslip is uploaded you will be able to view it in Payroll Self Service. The document is displayed in your browser's PDF viewer. Only payslips for pay periods after you were invited to join Payroll Self Service will be shown; older payslips are not uploaded to the website.

Steps

  1. Sign in to Payroll Self Service.
  2. Select the Your Payslips button on the Your Payroll Self Service page.
  3. Select the save or print icon as necessary.
Payroll Self Service page

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To view, save and print your P60

After your P60 for the tax year is uploaded you will be able to view it in Payroll Self Service. The PDF document is displayed in your browser's PDF viewer.

Steps

  1. Sign in to Payroll Self Service.
  2. Select the Your P60s button on the Your Payroll Self Service page.
  3. Select the save or print icon as necessary.
Payroll Self Service page

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To change your details

You can change your personal details like your name and address, and your marital status, and you can add a new photo, change your personal contact information, add a new qualification and details of your company car.

Any changes you make will be checked and verified before being imported in the HR application.

Note: Information that is changed on the page is highlighted (like the salutation below) until the change is accepted by the payroll administrator.

Steps

  1. From the Personal Details page, make the changes on the main page.
  2. To change your photo, contacts, education, bank account or company car details, first select the relevant page.
  3. Select Save.
Payroll Self Service page

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Setting up the website

The website needs to be set up before users can be invited to join Payroll Self Service.

Use the Website settings page to add a custom website banner, set up mail server details, create an email template that will be used when new users are invited to join Payroll Self Service or for password reminders and to set up an email signature. The Pegasus Web Xchange Administration page is also where audit logging and data synchronisation options are set.

Steps

Note: To save changes you must select Save before opening another tab.

  1. Sign in as a Pegasus Web Xchange administrator.
  2. Select the Settings button on the Pegasus Web Xchange administration page.
  3. Check and select these options as necessary on the Website settings page:
    • Log web pages loaded
    • Log changes to data
    • Log warnings
    • Data synchronisation frequency:
      • Set this to the frequency required for the synchronisation of the data between Pegasus Web Xchange and Opera 3. By default it happens every minute.
      • Set it to a higher number to reduce the frequency and overhead of this process.
      • Set it to a higher number if Pegasus Web Xchange is linked to more than one company in Opera 3 - the number of enter is divided by the number of companies. For example, if Pegasus Web Xchange is linked to two companies and you enter 60 minutes, each company will be checked at 30-minute intervals.
  4. Select the Mail server tab and enter the settings. To test the email enter a sender email address and recipient email address and select the Send test email button.
  5. Select the New user email, forgotten password email and email signature tabs in turn and enter the details.

Note: If you have been provided with a new activation key enter it in the New activation key box at the bottom of the page.

Website settings page

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Communication status

The Service Status page shows a summary of the Pegasus Web Xchange communication service status.

This includes service status summary will indicate the status of the following in the Pegasus Web Xchange infrastructure:

  • Server roles
  • Communication with each product
  • Communication with each company
  • The most recent failures or warnings.

Tip: More information can be seen by either hovering or clicking the icons on the page.

Steps

  1. Sign in as a Pegasus Web Xchange administrator.
  2. Select the Server Status button on the Pegasus Web Xchange administration page.

Server roles

This table provides a status of each server in the Pegasus Web Xchange infrastructure.

  • Role: The role of the server in the Pegasus Web Xchange infrastructure. This includes both editions of Opera 3 (VFP and SQL) and the storage server, sync server and web server.
  • Machine: The machine name; 'Not activated' is displayed if an Opera edition (VFP or SQL) has not been installed.
  • Status:
    • Running: The server is running normally.
    • Not activated: The server is not part of the Pegasus Web Xchange infrastructure.
    • Not responding: The server is not responding to the Pegasus Web Xchange communication service.

Product communication

This table provides a status of each product in the Pegasus Web Xchange infrastructure.

  • Product: The product that is linked to Pegasus Web Xchange.
  • Status:
    • Running: Communication with the product is running normally.
    • Unavailable: The server is not part of the Pegasus Web Xchange infrastructure.
    • Not responding: The server is not responding to the Pegasus Web Xchange communication service.

Company communication

This table provides a status of the communication between each company in Opera 3 and the Pegasus Web Xchange servers.

  • Product: The product that is linked to Pegasus Web Xchange (Opera 3 or Opera 3 SQL).
  • Status:
    • Running: Commmunication with the company is running normally.
    • Suspended: Commmunication with the company has been suspended by a process in Opera 3, for example the Update Data Structures command.
    • No Report: The communication service is not aware of the company.

Recent failures or warnings

This table displays the most recent failures or warnings. The table displays the start and finish time for each event along with the server involved and the event that caused the problem.

  • Failures mean that there was a problem with that communication event that must be investigated.
  • Warnings may mean there was a problem but they may also highlight that a geniune process was happening at the time, for example if one of these processes was active in Opera 3:
    • Running an Update Data Structures
    • Doing a data Restore
    • Creating a new company from the Company Profiles form
    • Subscribing a company to Pegasus Web Xchange in the PWX Centre
    • Running a PWX Reorganise in the PWX Centre.

    Note: Use the See all failures or warnings link for a full list.

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    Sending bulk emails

    Emails can be sent in bulk to people in selected roles (Payroll Self Service Administrators, employees, Payroll Self Service managers and Pegasus Web Xchange administrators). Emails can either be sent immediately or scheduled for later.

    Sent emails are displayed on the Email history page.

    Note: The SMTP server settings must be updated on the Website Administration > Settings > Mail Server page beforehand. This page is available to Pegasus Web Xchange administrators.

    Steps

    1. Sign in as a Pegasus Web Xchange administrator.
    2. Select the Users button on the Pegasus Web Xchange administration page.
    3. Select the Emails tab and then select the Add tab.
    4. Select the role(s) for the email and select Next.
    5. Check the list of recipients, select Next and then enter the email details.
    6. Update the Scheduling options as necessary.
    7. Select Save and then select Done.

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    Sending bulk emails

    Payroll Self Service emails can be sent in bulk to people in selected roles (Payroll Self Service Administrators, employees, Payroll Self Service managers and Pegasus Web Xchange administrators), and also in selected companies, departments and payroll groups. Emails can either be sent immediately or scheduled for later.

    Sent emails are displayed on the Email history page.

    Note: The SMTP server settings must be updated on the Website Administration > Settings > Mail Server page beforehand. This page is available to Pegasus Web Xchange administrators.

    Steps

    Note: To save changes you must select Save before opening another tab.

    1. Sign in as a Payroll Self Service administrator.
    2. Select the Users button on the Payroll Self Service administration page.
    3. Select the Emails tab and then select the Add tab.
    4. Select the roles for the email.
    5. Select Next to check the list of recipients and Next again until the email message page is displayed. Then enter the email details.
    6. Update the Scheduling options as necessary.

    Note: If the Payroll Self Service - Employee role is selected you can use the Company, Department and Payroll group lists to filter who receives the email.

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